The Bride Stripped Bare A Novel [Paperback]

A woman disappears, leaving behind an incendiary diary chronicling a journey of sexual awakening. To all who knew her, she was the good wife: happy, devoted, content. But the diary reveals a secret self, one who's discovered that her new marriage contains mysteries of its own. She has discovered a forgotten Elizabethan manuscript that dares to speak of what women truly desire, and inspired by its revelations, she tastes for the first time the intoxicating power of knowing what she wants and how to get it. The question is: How long can she sustain a perilous double life?

Titillating&like an artful striptease, The Bride Stripped Bare ensnares us with its rawness.Artful&cannily perceptive&this unusual but strangely compelling novel offers an intimate chronicle of change and self-discovery.Unremitting, elegant and dark. I believe every woman should get married at least once, and read this novel twice.Escapist fiction as its intriguing best. The Bride Stripped Bare is sexy with a capital X.Simply too beautiful...a mesmerizing and disquieting novel that will deserve to be read again.Wonderfully sensuous...witty in its construction...a subtle portrait of a modern marriage.One of the few truly original voices to emerge in a long time.Superbly executed: suspense, psychodrama, anger, tenderness and terror mingle with the restlessness of a vast , overpowering landscape.A powerful novel that does not flinch from strong emotion or description...luminous.A jazzy, nonlinear...narrative style as compelling and exotic as the landscape itself.A fierce, whitehot read.Sexual awakening for the dark horse in us all.The sex is rude and raunchy and exactly where you want it.An intensely honest look at a womans inner thoughts and desires.